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  • adjective Not mortised.

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un- +‎ mortised

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Examples

  • To finish the shocking description, in a dark nook stood an old broken-bottomed cane couch, without a squab, or coverlid, sunk at one corner, and unmortised by the failing of one of its worm-eater legs, which lay in two pieces under the wretched piece of furniture it could no longer support.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • To finish the shocking description, in a dark nook stood an old broken-bottomed cane couch, without a squab, or coverlid, sunk at one corner, and unmortised by the failing of one of its worm-eater legs, which lay in two pieces under the wretched piece of furniture it could no longer support.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725

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